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From HNN, an article on the politics of history: How “exceptional” is America? A review of Hakluyt’s Promise: An Elizabethan’s Obsession for an English America by Peter C. Mancall. A review of Jamestown: The Buried Truth by William M. Kelso. A review of Salem Witch Judge: The Life and Repentance of Samuel Sewall by Eve LaPlante. From American Heritage, Joseph Ellis explains just how the American Revolution was revolutionary, and a review of American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic. A review of Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution by Woody Holton. A review of My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams. A review of Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America’s Republic by Mary Kelley. A review of The Boardinghouse in Nineteenth Century America by Wendy Gamber. A review of German Culture in Nineteenth-Century America and Traveling between Worlds: German-American Encounters. A review of Unions, Radicals and Democratic Presidents: Seeking Social Change in the Twentieth Century by Martin Halpern.

The comeback of a war president: He may be America's most unpopular politician, but George W. Bush is no lame duck. George Will on how to rein in Bush: A new War Powers Resolution would end unfettered executive war-making. Are we living the nightmare outlined in Federalist #8? With the Inspectors General at various government agencies under fire, a question: Is Bush corrupting the watchdogs? Anthony Lewis reviewsDead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush by Robert Draper and The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration by Jack Goldsmith. A review of Running Alone: Presidential Leadership from JFK to Bush II—Why It Has Failed and How We Can Fix It by James MacGregor Burns. A review of Founders v. Bush: A Comparison in Quotation of the Policies and Politics of the Founding Fathers and George W. Bush by Steve Coffman. Flak magazine on how we know George W. Bush to be a hipster.

A review of Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction by Ray Brassier. An excerpt from A Brief History of the Future by Jacques Attali. A review of Politik: Wesen, Wiederkehr, Entlastung by Miguel Skirl. A review of The Right Road to Radical Freedom by Tibor R. Machan. A review of The Cultural Contradictions of Democracy: Political Thought Since September 11 by John Brenkman. "Democratic capitalism" is an inherently contradictory notion, and the gap between rhetoric and reality in today's politics is there for all to see—so why aren't politicians looking? Here are three better terms for "democracy". A review of Democracy and Legal Change by Melissa Schwartzberg. A review of Law and Catastrophe. A review of Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia and Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals by John Gray (and more).